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In truth, Florence during the period of its life _was_ Italy, -- the _vivida vis_, creative, contemplative, ornative, impulsive to the clay of Europe.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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Such pleonasms are ornative of speech, especially when they render the same thing more emphatically so, than if there were not that pleonastical addition.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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